New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-06

such suit and no such property existed Ander-
son lived comfortably off Mr.. Dakin's money
till the latter's suspicious aroused. The jury
at once found Anderson guilty, and the
court sentenced him TO five years penal
! servitude He is the first Of the gang who has
been convicted but 1t is certain he will not be the
last Mr.. White, Charge d'Afaires during Mr..
Phelpss Absence was present during the whole
trial and is satisfied that justice was done.
Publishers arc rushing into print to break the
force of Mr.. Walter Besants exposure of publishing
practices. which has produced-a widespread sensa-
tion What strikes the English public Is that this
tremendous attack-for 1T is nothing ess-comes
not from disappointed or needy but from sue
cessful and prosperous author. Mr.. Besant has no
| grievance Of his own. 1t is authors as class
| for whose wrongs he asks redress. authors
victims against whom the publishers
are trying to preserve their present peculiar
profits. The longest letter comes from MIR. Marston,
of Sampson Low & Co., who makes a show Of
dealing with Mr.. Besant's charges but leaves them
just where they were. His letter abounds in
sneers and innuendoes, sample of which will
suffice: Mr. Besant argues that authors shoud be
entitled to credit accounts and require vouchers,
| as in every other business transaction; and Mr..
MaIston calls this pryng into publishers ledgers
| singular, rather not singular, example of
the ways of publishers may be found in the story
| of the recent reissue of Mrs. Brownings poems.
Routledge, who has lately made a speciality of
swapping up expired copyrights. lay III
wait for Mrs. Browning, had ascer-
tanned the very day and hour when
! part of her poems became public property and
issued these without the knowledge or suspicion Of
Mr. Nvho first heard a h
! lication on entering bookstore. He thereupon ar
ranged with his own publisher TO issue edition,
| including those still under the copynght with his
| own notes. but Routledges imperfect issue had
| already been sold by thousands.
! The Aheaoum is authority for the statement
| that the present To;y Government has cut down
| the grants to the British Museum by $4,000 The
allowance for buying printed books is reduced by
| $4,000. Literature is the thing Tories seem to
think the first 10 sacrlhce 10 an economy not else
where practisea.
| Mr. Jofn MOrley's address the study of liter
ature, delivered in great part without manuscript.
is TO he written ont and will be published by Mac
! mans
| Lod Wolseley's extraordinary article on General
| Lee scarcely attracts attention. Tho English are
! too thoroughly Convinced of their mistake about
the Rebellion to be again misled as to the facts
and principles of that struggle.
| Mr. Whistler has done n thing for his own
fame in exhibiting at the Hogarth Club a selection
of representative examples of nearly the entire
series of his etchings He has drawn from the
most conservative of critics most emphatic testi-
mony This exhibition, says The Standard. is por-
tion Of the most memorable etched work executed
IN our time: work which. whatever may be said of
his paintings, has already become classic. aid lies
already i'll the portfolios Of the true collector by the
side of Rembrandt and Meryon. Ihatexpresses the
opinion of the overwhelming circle OF English art
lovers. The PhilIStne still fa'tens on Mr.. Whi3-
tiers exceptional cccentricities as essential traits.
but artists and true critics acknowledge the real
genius of this American
The first night of the revival of Lady Clancarty'
at the St Jamess Theatre drew together audi
ence more literary aud artistic than fashionable
Society sent few but fit representatives: Mr.. aud
Mrs. Henry Manners and two Americans, Mrs
White and Mrs Arthur Post. No royalties
attended aud the pecrage was conspicuous by It's
| absence. The house crowded, however, with
cultivated and critical people, 10 whom the play vas
the thing, and perhaps the actors ana actresses
| not less. IInc scenery costumes designed
| by Mr. Marcus Stone and, glowing with color. elab-
crate groupings ana picturesque effects oi stage
| management in which Mr. IlaTes knowledge and
taste were at their bestall these aroused ad'
miratlon during the first and following acts.
"Tom" Tayors play was, nevertheless, felt TO have
lost rather than gained by keeping scenes which
used to act themselves, but now dragged and the
! whole movement of the piece seemed heavy. Onc
! undeniabe and erwhelming success during the
! first two acts was Mr. Mackintosh's King Will
! iam" study most remarkable for careful hnish
and profoundly Interesting piece of character
| PLAYING, sustained to the end In style
which enabled him TO divide the honoIs
| OF the evening with Mrs. Kendall. III
was not till the third act that Mrs Kendall came fairly
| TO the front. The great scene where her husband,
| whom she does not know to be her husband, takes
refuge in her chamber and is there discovered was
played by this delightful artist in her own best
style. 1t is certainly too long, and makes TOO great
draft on the sympathies Of the audience and encr-
ges OF the actress but it alone was enough to carry
through the play. Mr.. Kendals Lord Clancarty"
was marred by nervousness, but was right IL con-
| ception and excellent in many details. The cast
otherwise was not strkIngly good save for the per
fecton Of the ensemble. The reception of the play
and players by the house was everything the heart
of the managers could have wished.
| Pretty full accounts of Miss Mary Andersons
plans appear in print. but not much that Is new
The revival of "A Winters Tale " by her AT the
| Lyceum Theatre next autumn interests the pubnc
not less than the production Of new poeticai play
bv Lord Lytton. This means. presume the pres
ent Lord Lytton. who always has, however, some
unpublished aud unacted play OF his fathers at tho
disposition Of any manager courageous enough 10
repeat an experiment not recently successful
comedy in rhyme perhaps unique In Engiish ii'ef-
| ature is among these doubtful treasures
Rnmors about refusal of the censorship to allow
"FrancillonD to be played London, even
in French are confirmed. The Lord Chamber
| lain does not believe London morals are firm
| enough to resist this invasion Of French liccose.
"FIancion." nevertheless, IS purity itself conf
pared with n dozen pieces on which the Lord
Chamberlain has set the seal of his approval. Time.
high personal influences and the slow operations OF
common sense will presently remove the foolish
ban.